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* pgsql: Fix yet another portability problem in new NLS test.
@ 2026-07-17 22:08  Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2026-07-17 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Fix yet another portability problem in new NLS test.

Álvaro reported offlist that his machine was passing the new-in-v19
nls.sql test in "make check" but not in "make installcheck".  On
investigation, the cause turned out to be that he has LANGUAGE set in
his environment, and with (at least recent versions of) glibc that
overrides LC_MESSAGES and friends, as per previous research by Bryan
Green.  "make check" works because pg_regress unsets LANGUAGE before
starting the postmaster, but in installcheck mode we're exposed to
the prevailing value and we lose.

We're already hacking the value of LANGUAGE in this test for Solaris,
so let's just extend that to unsetting LANGUAGE on every other platform.

Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Diagnosed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a337896e-5bff-490b-afc9-c545f06c014c@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
------
master

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f5dfd52553d3b041e30e9b1f1c6eb9f7af55fbdb

Modified Files
--------------
src/test/regress/regress.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)



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* pgsql: Fix yet another portability problem in new NLS test.
@ 2026-07-17 22:08  Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread

From: Tom Lane @ 2026-07-17 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Fix yet another portability problem in new NLS test.

Álvaro reported offlist that his machine was passing the new-in-v19
nls.sql test in "make check" but not in "make installcheck".  On
investigation, the cause turned out to be that he has LANGUAGE set in
his environment, and with (at least recent versions of) glibc that
overrides LC_MESSAGES and friends, as per previous research by Bryan
Green.  "make check" works because pg_regress unsets LANGUAGE before
starting the postmaster, but in installcheck mode we're exposed to
the prevailing value and we lose.

We're already hacking the value of LANGUAGE in this test for Solaris,
so let's just extend that to unsetting LANGUAGE on every other platform.

Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Diagnosed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a337896e-5bff-490b-afc9-c545f06c014c@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
------
REL_19_STABLE

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5ed9cee74c6cf23729bd5cc4dee3b0ebbd4aa7aa

Modified Files
--------------
src/test/regress/regress.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)



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